Andres v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The uncontradicted testimony established that the infant plaintiff was injured when the defendant struck him in the face with his fist. Clearly, a cause of action for the intentional tort of battery was made out. Nevertheless, plaintiffs framed this complaint solely on a theory of negligence, presumably in order to reach the “deep pocket” of defendant’s insurer, which had issued a policy covering defendant’s negligence but excluding liability for intentional acts. In our view, the evidence offered at trial was insufficient to sustain the plaintiffs’ negligence theory and, therefore, the complaint should have been dismissed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fulmer v. Rider